Quotes By Nicolas Chamfort

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.